“Everyone wants to be happy; in order to get there, one has to actively search for the roots of one’s unhappiness. Just prayers and wishes are not enough. One has to clear out confusion and ignorance and create clarity.

That is the aim of the Kalachakra Empowerment. It is a spiritual cleansing, in which the four chakras of one’s body have to be focused on by meditation. The mandala helps us visualize this, it shows the way like signposts.”

 

Ex-abbot of Namgyial Monastery